Career of Joshua James
A new beginning.... (Same house rules as the Spurs career planned)
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Very interesting! Now, I'm not sure if I'm meant to reveal your club, or if it's meant to be a mystery a little longer. But that's a brilliant choice, always an agent for positive attacking football and developing young talents. Both of Danish origin, but also a lot coming from especially African nations.
They've also made a number of great sales, matching FC København and FC Midtjylland in this regard. They don't match their results though, but they also sell every youngster with potential and always seem to find a way to replace him with another bright upcoming star. I'm looking very much forward to see where this is going.
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es, please reveal! I want to make sure I have the correct hints lol.. I thought you might get it but I literally know nothing about this league or teams so I might make mistakes.
They are very young, that is one of the reasons I picked them.
- @Stlducks4
I think it's Nordsjælland...You are correct!
@Stlducks4 wrote:Yes, please reveal! I want to make sure I have the correct hints lol.. I thought you might get it but I literally know nothing about this league or teams so I might make mistakes.
They are very young, that is one of the reasons I picked them.
Correct hints indeed. The red and yellow colours gave it away, and so did "Right to Dream", with the club's stadium being called Right to Dream Park and their academy in Ghana sharing the same name. You should definitely send a scout there!
The club has been successful with youngsters and have a great history of selling great talents to bigger leagues for good money. Andreas Schjelderup, Mohamed Kudus, Kamaldeen Sulemana, Andreas Skov Olsen, Mathias Jensen, Simon Adringra, Mikkel Damsgaard, Marcus Ingvartsen, just to name a few. In recent years they've tried to sign a bit of experience too, with Kian Hansen arriving from FC Midtjylland, now being the captain of the club. They also signed Randers captain Erik Marxen to add experience, and bringing home former Superliga top scorer Marcus Ingvartsen was seen as a coup and a sign of intent to also try to challenge the top teams.
It's a relatively new club, merged in 1992 as Farum Boldklub. One of the primary men behind was then mayor of Farum, Peter Brixtofte, who was also chairman of the football club. He was later found guilty of cheating with funds from the city to the benefit of the football club. Despite him being sent to prison, the club joined the top tier in in 2001/02 and changed their name to FC Nordsjælland, trying to represent the whole region and not just the city of Farum.
It was actually a curious case with the appointment of Johannes Hoff Thorup in January 2023. His predecessor, the more experienced Flemming Pedersen, had taken the club to first in the league and had quite a gap at Christmas. But then he and the club decided to make a change in the position, so the inexperienced 33 year old Hoff Thorup took over. And the elderly Pedersen got a new position away from the sidelines. I remember thinking this was a lose-lose situation for the young gaffer. If they kept the lead and won the title, surely people would say it was due to Flemming Pedersen's work in the fall. But the more likely scenario was probably that every little point lost would put the gaffer and club under heavy pressure and doubt. And that's also what happened, losing the first place to FC København. This season it's back to normal with a 5th place so far, but they did actually have a decent campaign in the Conference League, most notably with a surprising 6-1 win vs Fenerbahce. They lost their place in top 2 on the final day though.
